Qwen3.8 9B
on RTX 3060 8GB
Use cases
coding
Summary
User reports running Qwen3.8 9B on an RTX 3060 8GB with 16GB of system RAM, getting 50-70 tok/s but only 20-30k tokens of usable context.
No engine, quant or KV cache setting is stated.
User finds the speed acceptable but the memory too tight for practical work, and asks whether a second GPU or a dedicated cheap machine is the better upgrade for coding and research use.